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Working Hours

Working Hours

著者： Western Studios Leeds Ltd
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What do you do? Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us? Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency. If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?Copyright 2026 Western Studios, Leeds Ltd 世界 出世 就職活動 社会科学 経済学
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  • The Whole World is a Workplace, and All the People Merely Staff

    The Whole World is a Workplace, and All the People Merely Staff
    2026/07/17

    Recorded on 11/06/2026

    Maria Forryan is Subject Lead of Drama at Elliott Hudson College. She has also taught A Level Music, BTEC music, GCSE English, EPQ and been a mentor for Trainee teachers whilst working there. Maria has been there for 10 years now, since moving back from Shanghai, and she also works for AQA as an A Level Drama examiner too.

    Starting her teaching career as Head of Music at a comprehensive school in Oldham, although she also taught Drama - which she definitely preferred. Maria then moved to a very posh private boarding school in Suffolk, which she says, ‘looked like Hogwarts’, there she held the position of director of Drama for 4 years.

    Fancying somewhere a bit louder and brighter she then took a job as Director of Performing Arts at the British International School in Shanghai before she moved back to the UK with her husband to start a family. They didn't know Leeds well but Maria’s sister lived in Morley and they liked the city from the couple of times they had visited. So, from the other side of the world they decided to move to the best city there is - Leeds. And she’s been here ever since.

    Additionally, Maria: volunteers as a theatre critic and interviewer for Leeds Living magazine, which promotes living in Leeds. Usually covering professional productions, mainly at Leeds Grand and Leeds Playhouse, she also enjoys reviewing local amateur theatre too. Maria particularly like to review children's theatre as she can take her two children with her too - and they by all accounts love it. Maria also does upon request interviews with cast members or directors in the lead up to particular shows. In the last year she set up her own instagram page maria_Reviews_leeds_theatre where she shares all the links for the shows she reviews, and anything else that she sees, such as music concerts or shows outside Leeds.

    Maria also plays for Leeds Wheelchair Basketball team where her husband is a coach. She is a qualified scaffolder and brick layer! A qualified minibus driver and, like me (Thanks to Underwood training – check out series 5 episode 33 for more on them) a first aider (which she uses at work). Maria is also a trustee on her kids’ PTA as well being as a parent governor.

    This one goes hard on theatre and I hope it’s as fun for you to listen to this recording as it was to listen to Maria talking.

    You can find Maria’s reviews on her Instagram:

    https://www.instagram.com/maria_reviews_leeds_theatre/

    Or at Leeds Living

    https://leedsliving.co.uk/

    Mentioned in the interview:

    https://www.facebook.com/oscars.morley/

    https://www.thewardrobe.co.uk

    https://whiteswanleeds.co.uk/

    https://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/yorkshireandthehumber/thescarbroughhotelbishopsgatestreetleeds#/

    https://leedsheritagetheatres.com

    https://www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk

    https://www.facebook.com/people/Morley-March-Hymn-Tune-Contest/61553483114559/#

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLua32GVbRI_FcUnKVCCH8JcfEK2hgeHkh

    Let me know if I've missed any links you might want.

    Check out Underwood Training's episode: https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/helen-underwood
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    1 時間 32 分
  • Work Builds Society

    Work Builds Society
    2026/07/20

    Recorded on 22/06/2026

    Lynette Willoughby’s first degree was in Electrical and Electronic Engineering after which she moved to Leeds to teach at Foxwood school for 2 years. After then trekking round the Pyrenees and the Alps for 3 months with a friend Lynette taught at East Leeds Women's Workshops. She then did an MSc in Microprocessor Engineering followed by over 20 years working at Leeds Poly/Leeds Metropolitan University.

    Lynette was very active in the Women's Engineering Society and was President from 1993-1995. At 49 she started a part-time Fine Art degree at Leeds College of Art - Lynette had always been an artist alongside being an engineer – her mother was an artist even though as a single parent with 4 children her mother never had much time to practice her art, but Lynette grew up around all her work.

    Since retiring in 2005 Lynette has concentrated more on her art, doing site-responsive installations with a friend and also making artists books, which she shows at Artists Book Fairs.

    We also discuss the brilliant alternative economy idea of Time Banking in this episode.

    Get in to time banking people.

    https://timebanking.org/

    https://lynettewilloughby.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Willoughby

    https://www.roundhayartists.com/

    https://mrbragshaws.co.uk/

    https://www.gutenberg.org/

    https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/

    https://www.deliziosa.co.uk/

    https://www.jupiterartland.org/

    https://www.alanpergusey.com/
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    1 時間 51 分
  • Work Spins Us Right Round Baby

    Work Spins Us Right Round Baby
    2026/08/24
    Recorded on 19/05/2026Chris Black left school in 1986 intending to become a painter-decorator but ended up joining his dad’s growing company instead. Starting as a factory lad and then working his way up through the departments of installation, service, sales, and then spending 25 years as managing director before becoming the joint chairman of the business. Sound Leisure today is a global specialist selling their Jukeboxes in more than 40 countries around the world.Chris explains how the jukebox business has shifted during his time from 1950s Americana to becoming a global lifestyle product. We discuss how the industry moved from more accessible wide spread models to specialist high-end custom builds and the industry’s move to a much stronger emphasis on advising buyers about their products and providing long-term excellent service to their customers.Chris emphasis the vital importance of providing world class customer service and the benefit of having a family culture in business. We reflect on sustainability and discuss the pragmatic business constraints of making and shipping products. Chris tell us how Brexit is a major ongoing disruption for EU trade and we talk about the operational upheaval of COVID, when the businesses pivoted to coffin-making to help out in a time of national crisis.We also talk about Chris and Sound Leisure’s involvement in the Leeds Manufacturing Festival as well as his and his business’ support of apprenticeships, and we speak to the importance of social media for giving a modern business worldwide credibility.You can find out more about Sound Leisure at:https://soundleisure.com/https://www.facebook.com/ClassicJukeboxeshttps://www.instagram.com/soundleisurejukeboxes/www.linkedin.com/company/sound-leisure-ltd/And Leeds Manufacturing Festival at:https://leedsmanufacturingfestival.co.uk/Also metionedhttps://www.familybusinessunited.com/https://www.utcleeds.co.uk/https://leedscitycollege.ac.uk/Also check outhttps://www.leedsforlearning.co.uk/If you’d like to find out more about buying your very own Working Hours episode, then you can go to:https://western-studios.com/be-on-a-podcast/working-hours-podcast-the-paid-plan/If you want to get in touch with me about this episode or any other free episode of Working Hours or anything Working Hours related, then you can email me about this show at workinghourspod@western-studios.com.You can send a tip to me for all the work I have done and any value you have got from the show by going and donating at Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/workinghoursIt’s a £3 minimum and anything you do donate is very much appreciated.Or you can give a regular donation towards paying for the creation of new future episodes of this show by joining the Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/WorkingHoursPodMemberships start at £6 a month so you will pay for a new episode every 50 months - or less - if more people join - or if people pay a higher subscription rate.Thanks for listening to Working Hours
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    1 時間 30 分
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